The Man Who Sold The World - The Album
The Spanish release |
The rare (and valuable) Round Cover German release
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Songs (Time)
All songs written by David Bowie.
- The Width Of A Circle (8:05)
- All The Madmen (5:38)
- Black Country Rock (3:32)
- After All (3:51)
- Running Gun Blues (3:11)
- Saviour Machine (4:25)
- She Shook Me Cold (4:13)
- The Man Who Sold The World (3:55)
- The Supermen (3:38)
Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release
- Lightning Frightening (3:38) Previous unreleased
track from 1970
- Holy Holy (2:20) Single A-side from 1970 (note: see trivia)
- Moonage Daydream (3:52)
- Hang Onto Yourself (2:51)
- Release details
- Original release by Mercury April 1971
- Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1990 with bonus tracks
- Producer
- Tony Visconti
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar
- Mick Ronson: guitar
- Tony Visconti: bass
- Mick Woodmansey: drums
- Ralph mace: synthesizer
Bonus track details
Moonage Daydream and Hang Onto Yourself were released
as a single under the name Arnold Corns in 1971.
All four bonus tracks were written by David Bowie.
- Lightening Frightening
- Producer
- Tony Visconti
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar
- Tim Renwick: guitar
- Tony Visconti: bass
- John Cambridge: drums
- Holy Holy
- Producer
- Herbie Flowers
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar
- Herbie Flowers: bass
- Mick Ronson: guitar
- Mick Woodmansey: drums
- Moonage Daydream
- Hang Onto Yourself
- Producer
- David Bowie
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar
- Freddi Buretti: vocals
- Mick Ronson: guitar
- Mark Carr Prichard: guitar
- Trevor Bolder: bass
- Woody Woodmansey: drums
Hunters and Collectors
The RCA LSP-4816 release of the album includes a poster of the
"high kick" shot. (Info from Micke).
Trivia
- There are multiple cover photos to The Man Who Sold The
World. These include the infamous drag photo, the cartoon, and the
high kick.
- The bonus tracks Moonage
Daydream and Hang Onto
Yourself were released as a single under the name Arnold Corns in
1971. While the name was inspired by David's favourite Pink Floyd
song Arnold Layne, the group itself never really existed. In
publicity photos Bowie appeared alongside dress designer Freddi
Buretti, who was supposedly the group's lead singer and a discovery of
David's. Both of these songs were later reworked for the Ziggy Stardust album.
- In spite of what the Rykodisc release notes say, the version
of Holy Holy included here is in fact the 1973
Spiders remake featured on the B side of the single Diamond Dogs. The original
version can only be picked up on the bootleg album Changesthreeandahalf.
(Information courtesy of Punk Floyd).
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Date | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | November 25, 1972 | 26 | 22 |
| US | ? | 105 | 23 |
| UK | April 14, 1990 | 66 | 1 |
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